Tag: defense
The US Department of Defense's (DoD) top information officer, John Sherman, has called for greater cybersecurity measures to be implemented in commercial satellite systems. Speaking at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium in St Louis, Sherman said that as commercial companies...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is helping the US Defense Department keep track of the increasingly competitive space domain, according to Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, the agency’s director. Speaking at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium in St Louis, Whitworth said...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded four contracts to Umbra, Terran Orbital’s PredaSAR unit, Northrop Grumman, and Jacobs to fly synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites in formation. The aim is to demonstrate novel imagery collection techniques...
The US Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) has announced plans to launch its Tranche 2 data communications Transport Layer (T2TL) Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in 2026 as part of the future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The T2TL...
SES, a global satellite operator, has secured a new contract worth nearly $30m from the US military. The five-year Commercial Satellite Communications Transponded Capacity (CTC) contract was awarded to SES Space & Defense, a subsidiary of SES, and will...
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to work more closely with the commercial space sector to take advantage of the rapid innovation being produced by companies. The new effort will be led by Lindsay Millard, principal director...
The US Department of Defense is working to normalize space as an operational domain, according to John Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy. Speaking at the Space Symposium, Plumb said that doing so requires collaboration with allies...
Northrop Grumman has completed the critical design review for its spacecraft for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), paving the way for production to begin. The company won a contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to provide satellites...
ATLAS Space Operations, the leading provider of Ground Software as a Service™ (GSaaS), today announced the award of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award to develop their Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities. This effort will use...
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Late this evening, at 23:14 UTC, the DART spacecraft will impact with Dydimos, testing a possible way to redirect an asteroid, providing a feasible maneuver for planet Earth defense from incoming asteroids.
DART was launched on Nov. 23, 2021, aboard...
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